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MAATQNOS TIMAIOS
THE TIMAEUS OF PLAEO
EDITED
WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES
BY
R. D. ARCHER-HIND, M.A.
FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
London
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
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Cambridge:
PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AND SONS,
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
PREFACE.
HE present appears to be the first English edition of the
Timaeus. Indeed since the sixteenth century, during which this dialogue was published separately no less than four times, it had not, so far as I am aware, been issued apart from the rest of Plato’s works until the appearance of Lindau’s edition, accompanied by a Latin translation, in 1828. Lindau’s commentary, though here and there suggestive, does not afford much real help in grappling with the main difficulties of the dialogue; and-sometimes displays a fundamental misapprehension of its significance. Ten years later came Stallbaum’s edition; concerning which it were unbecoming to speak with less than the respect due to the zeal and industry of a scholar who has essayed the gigantic enterprise of editing with elaborate prolegomena and commentary the entire works of Plato, and it would be unfair to…